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An operation at St. Bartholomew's Hospital 1910

Medicinal leech Hirudo verbena

Hordeum vulgare (Barley)

The Walton-Minnitt Gas Air Apparatus, circa 1937

Epidural anaesthesia, artwork

Mandragora officinarum (Mandrake)

Cocoon from medicinal leech Hirudo verbena

Vials of drug solution

Snow's Chloroform Inhaler

Anaesthesia, artwork

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Anaesthetic

Images from the collections

Images referencing Anaesthetic

Works from the collections

Cocoon from medicinal leech Hirudo verbena

Snow's Chloroform Inhaler

Anaesthesia, artwork

Mandragora officinarum (Mandrake)

Epidural anaesthesia, artwork

Anaesthetic

Images from the collections

Images referencing Anaesthetic

Works from the collections

Cocoon from medicinal leech Hirudo verbena

Snow's Chloroform Inhaler

Anaesthesia, artwork

Mandragora officinarum (Mandrake)

Epidural anaesthesia, artwork

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